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PetStreet.co.uk is the brainchild of Maurice Melzak, a filmmaker with 20 years’ experience of making television programmes about our relationships with the animal kingdom.

The website allow users to create free pages for their pets, to upload pictures and videos, to contact other pet lovers and to create groups of users within the site. PetStreet.co.uk has already won the support of a number of big organisations including The Kennel Club and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

Maurice Melzak, who has teamed up with digital content specialist Zone to design and develop the website, said: "PetStreet.co.uk is all about sharing the joy and benefits that we get from the animals and birds that are part of our lives. We want PetStreet to appeal to people who keep every conceivable creature, whether dogs or cats, reptiles or rodents, or fish, ferrets or fantail pigeons."

James Freedman, Chief Executive of Zone, added: "Everyone at Zone is excited by the opportunity to create a social networking site around pets and pet lovers. By combining Maurice’s experience and expertise in this sector and Zone’s editorial, design and technical skills, we hope we can create the definitive website in this sector."

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About Zone
Zone delivers print, web and mobile content for media, entertainment and corporate clients including Channel 4, Fremantle Media, Unilever, Chrysalis Radio, GCAP, lastminute.com and Marvel Entertainment. For more information, visit www.zonecontent.com

About Maurice Melzak
Maurice Melzak is a zoologist and filmmaker. He started in television working as a researcher for Sir David Attenborough and Gerald Durrell before going on to produce him own films, which included productions for QED, Encounters and Equinox. Many of his films have examined aspects of urban wildlife, often featured the perspectives of people like pest controllers, zookeepers and city vets. His film Josie’s Journey, about Josie Russell, led him into forensic science and he has made many documentaries on crime scene investigation, including The Natural History of Murder and The Body Farm

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